Looks like Airbnb have removed the “pets allowed” filter from their listing searches. Apparently in order to find out if pets allowed the gust has to go to each listing and look up the rules for each listing. That does not make sense!
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Now you put pets in the guest count when you search. It will include the pet fee as a flat fee too. Homes that don’t allaw pets won’t come up in search.
This changed months ago when they added built in pet fees.
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Airbnb are heading to a hotel style experience.
All in the guests favour.
I don’t allow children under 12, I get requests to book every damn day from people with babies and toddlers asking to book and they get pissy when I say No!
If I have that restriction, my listing should not even show as available on those dates for those families.
My House
My Rules
Yet I am the bad host who won’t allow a snotty, sticky 3 year old into my heritage, antiques filled home……. Obviously all the hosts fault for being mean…!
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I’m curious – what exactly do they say? As a student-of-human-nature I’m not surprised at their inappropriate sense of entitlement, but I just don’t understand why they waste time engaging in pissy whining rather than just moving on to the next 200 listings in their search results.
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So – always American guests citing American law?
This is an algorithm-triggered message from Airbnb? What are the trigger phrases?
Ha! Ha!
That would be an entire 180 on Airbnb corporate culture and priorities!
…as opposed to someone hitting the host with a moral argument or musing on the difficulty of planning a family vacation when you have young kids, rather than adopting a litigious posture.
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I am in a small regional town, there are 32 entire house listings, of the 32 I have 4. My biggest home sleeps 12 and has a pool and a large yard.
The pissy ones come from a particular group and dislike dealing with a woman who said No.
They often ask for the man in Charge and this group has done the most damage and are the least respectful over my hosting career. They were the reason for the age restrictions.
There isn’t anywhere else for them to consider……
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They could start with “That’s not fair” which is different from (but overlaps with) “I’m calling the cops”
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“Group” as in “specific people” or “group” as in a “particular kind of person”
That alone is pretty well enough to earn them a place on the Official Shitlist!
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Meant metaphorically to make the point they went directly to threatening to invoke the law rather than argue the fairness on the grounds of fairness. Perhaps I should have written “call the cops” in quotation marks
A specific cultural group that don’t treat women well.
Recently a family from this particular group made completely ridiculous accusations against an airline in Australia. They just wanted their own entitled way.
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As you yourself pointed out, there is no “civil right” to bring young children into a short term rental.
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Oh… that group.
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I’ve never gotten one of those, but i got one the other day saying something like “Warning- this inquiry may not be be legitimate, do you want to report this guest?” (I can’t remember the exact wording)
I couldn’t figure out what triggered it, except the guest had asked if he could book for three nights, and if I could “reserve” the following three nights for him, as he wasn’t sure at that point whether he could stay or had to get back for work. (Of course I said no, that hosts don’t block dates on the off-chance that a guest might extend)
So maybe the algorithm took that as him wanting to book outside the platform? Seems weird that it would be able to infer something like that.
I literally guffawed! That’s a lot of groups. Here in the US it’s Republican state legislators. Luckily they never rent my Airbnb so I don’t have to worry about it.
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That is quite different. That is discrimination based upon something that is part and parcel of who that person is. People choose to have children or pets, which some places are set up and suitable for, and some aren’t, whereas there’s nothing unsuitable about any listing for someone who is black, or Muslim, or trans.
Also people can get babysitters or board pets- you can’t remove your skin, your hijab or turban, or your disability, and leave it at home.
As someone who raised 3 kids, and has 6 grandkids, if a place said it was unsuitable for children, it would never occur to me to consider that discriminatory. I wouldn’t want to take kids to a place that was set up for adults only, for instance had lots of breakable stuff, antique lamps, etc., nor somewhere there would be safety hazards. Having to constantly watch the kids to make sure they don’t damage anything or get hurt doesn’t make for a relaxing holiday.
There are lots of places where children or pets aren’t allowed and no one considers it discriminatory. You can’t take children into a bar or a strip club, and you can’t take pets into a restaurant or many other businesses or onto public transportation unless they are service animals.
As I only rent to one guest at a time, the subject of accepting kids doesn’t come up, and if I had a bigger place, I would accept kids, because I’m used to having kids around and would simply kid-proof.
But I don’t think you need to feel a moral dilemma about having a no children listing. It really isn’t discriminatory in the same sense as refusing to accept someone because of the color of their skin or sexual orientation. The parents who scream discrimination because their children aren’t welcome everywhere are just entitled brats, IMO.
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Oh, I fully support anti-discrimination laws when it comes to race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, disabilities. I just don’t see there being places where children and pets are not welcome falling into the same category.
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